3 September 2012 Last updated at 02:43 ET
Two Americans have died in a suicide bombing in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, the provincial information minister has said.
The bomber is said to have rammed an explosives-filled car into a vehicle which had left the US consulate.
A number of people were injured in the attack, which minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain described as a bid to "to terrorise the foreigners", AFP reports.
Peshawar is situated near tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Taliban and al-Qaeda militants operate in the area and the city has been targeted frequently in bombings in recent years - though US officials are said to be protected by extensive security measures.
Monday's blast apparently took place after the vehicle had left the US consulate, police said.
A witness told BBC the car in which the explosives were planted rammed into a four-wheel-drive vehicle in Aabdara Road area - close to the offices of the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, and a registration centre for Afghan refugees.
"The dead and injured are from the US consulate. It was a suicide attack. The suicide bomber targeted [a] US vehicle," Mr Hussain told AFP.
A local journalist who saw a US passport inside the targeted four-wheel-drive said it carried the stamp of the US Consulate and was in the name of an apparent employee of the consulate.
On Friday at least 11 people died in a car bombing in the Mattani district.
Two Americans have died in a suicide bombing in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, the provincial information minister has said.
The bomber is said to have rammed an explosives-filled car into a vehicle which had left the US consulate.
A number of people were injured in the attack, which minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain described as a bid to "to terrorise the foreigners", AFP reports.
Peshawar is situated near tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Taliban and al-Qaeda militants operate in the area and the city has been targeted frequently in bombings in recent years - though US officials are said to be protected by extensive security measures.
Monday's blast apparently took place after the vehicle had left the US consulate, police said.
A witness told BBC the car in which the explosives were planted rammed into a four-wheel-drive vehicle in Aabdara Road area - close to the offices of the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, and a registration centre for Afghan refugees.
"The dead and injured are from the US consulate. It was a suicide attack. The suicide bomber targeted [a] US vehicle," Mr Hussain told AFP.
A local journalist who saw a US passport inside the targeted four-wheel-drive said it carried the stamp of the US Consulate and was in the name of an apparent employee of the consulate.
On Friday at least 11 people died in a car bombing in the Mattani district.